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Okay, so that's not the filmmaker's fault.
Some of us are really laid-back and low key, with excellent concentration skills, and are detail oriented to a fault.
In "Speedway," Elvis plays Steve Grayson, a successful race car driver who's generous to a fault.
I think the script is mainly at fault - it disobeys most of the screenwriting rules (fair enough if the final product works, not if it bores you to tears) and doesn't offer the viewer enough to hold their interest.
I had the memory of a "Jacquou Le Croquant", hero of a TV mini-series of my childhood, who had lost his parents by the fault of an aristocrat and more generally because of the post-Napoleonean social classes system, and who came to a revenge by leading a revolt especially against that social system and against the man which incarnates the cause of the tragedy of his family.
No one can fault the backdrop of this movie - the Sierra Nevada's.
Slanted to a fault (how could it not be) its Moore telling you something is wrong but not really offering any real solutions.
That's not her fault of course, but she can't get credit for it either.
So it's all pretty jumbled up, and the visuals don't match up a lot of the time, but I reckon that's a feature, not a fault.
Jesse Bradford is adequate as the protagonist, a sort of well-meaning bad boy who got on the wrong track through no fault of his.
I never cared for any of the characters; almost all of them were tiresome to a fault.
However, this paradoxically produces the slow pace which is a fault for this film.
Men and dogs, rabbits and mice, are equally worthwhile in his view, and he continually (and the script is sedulous to a fault in this regard) emphasizes this here and elsewhere in his writings, and the result is a kind of pantheistic regard for everything that lives, which is wonderful and idealistic, but alas impractical.
And while I agree it is really bad, I'm not sure it reached the level of wretchedness needed to merit inclusion in the book--but it sure is close enough that I can't fault its mention.
Linney is an excellent actress and did what she could with this role, you cannot fault her performance.
In fact, like the rule of law, eurozone reform is a key fault line along which political alliances will be established.
But the government continues to miss its fiscal targets, more because of the global slowdown than through any fault of its own.
Fortunately, this fault line in the British safeguards can be corrected without jeopardizing the document.
Likewise, President Donald Trump’s unprecedented lack of experience and general incompetence cannot be at fault, as he isn’t indispensible to the repeal and replace process.
The Boston ParadoxMOSCOW – Whose fault is it that the Boston Marathon was bombed?
In order to allow Cardoso to win and keep the music playing, the IMF bought into the idea that Brazil's problem is the budget, not debt or the exchange rate, and that the budget is the fault of the Brazilian Congress.
One audience member in Helsinki told me despondently that he had soured on globalization after some of his friends lost their jobs through no fault of their own, but merely because Ericsson decided to move some European plants’ operations to China.
The deficits are as much the fault of the surplus countries as they are of the deficit countries.
The fault lies not with economics, but with economists.
Otherwise, whatever happens to them is their own fault.
The sectarian dimensions of today’s Middle East, with its active Sunni-Shia fault line, are more pronounced than they have been in centuries.
Iraq’s location on a major fault line between Sunnis and Shia – whose sectarian rivalry has become the main axis of confrontation in the region – has been a source of instability in the country for decades.
Given that the Labour Party leader at the time supported the hard-headed policy of Howard and his Liberal Party, both of Australia’s major parties were at fault.
This feeling of ignorance coupled with powerlessness is not entirely the European Parliament’s fault.
And none of the major fault lines of the Middle East can be resolved in isolation anymore.
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